There is a kind of wild grass in our countryside, known as pulling straw, I believe many farmer friends have seen, this kind of wild grass is a group of climbing vine plants, a long is a lot, when it first grows small, when it is particularly tender, our farmers will cut it back to feed the old cows, but also grass pigs and sheep also like to eat this grass.
In fact, farmers hate this grass very much, if you grow this grass in the field, it is faster than the crops to absorb nutrients, it can be said that in the crop to grab fertilizer, directly affect the yield of crops. And this grass is particularly troublesome to clean up, I helped adults cut it when I was a child. Its rattan has a lot of thorns, especially panicked, both adults and children are often cut by it to cut blood marks on the arms and legs. Angry, he wielded his scythe and slashed wildly.
The scientific name of this pulling straw is Lala straw, also known as the grass, its stems, branches, and leaves are all barbed, mainly if you are not careful, you will be scratched and bleeding, so many farmers are very disgusted with this wild grass plant, often to get rid of them. This wild catalpa plant has rough surfaces on its leaves and looks like it is covered with burrs, but its value is also very precious.
This wild plant will bloom in the spring and summer, the flowers are very beautiful, quite ornamental, and in the autumn of each year, it will bear fruit, its fruit is not edible. This wild plant is widely distributed in China except for Xinjiang and Qingdao, and the range of distribution is extremely wide, generally growing in ditches, wastelands, ruins, forest edges and other places, and is very common in rural areas.
This wild plant is very adaptable to the environment, no matter what the environment can thrive, it can grow in barren places, but it grows more vigorously on fertile land. In fact, this wild grass can be used as feed, is a very good feeding ingredient, can significantly improve the animal's adaptability to the environment, adjust the nutritional balance, can see how precious its value.
Although the grass can not be eaten as a dish, it is said that it is a Kind of Chinese herbal medicine, in the past, if the children in the countryside had diarrhea, they generally pinched a few to boil water for the children to drink, and it was good to drink for a day or two. This is what the adults in the family said when I was a child, whether there is this effect or not, I have not examined it.
But in the countryside this grass is annoying, but if you have cattle and sheep at home, it is easy to do, cattle and sheep like to eat this, tender and chewy.